Break Every Rule World Tour is the sixth concert tour by singer Tina Turner. The tour supported her sixth solo album Break Every Rule (1986). It was sponsored by Pepsi-Cola and broke box office records in 13 different countries: United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Austria, France, Ireland and Denmark. It was the third highest-grossing tour by a female artist in North America in 1987 and the highest-grossing female tour of the 1980s with a total of $11.3 million (for 78 shows in the United States).[1]Her show in Rio de Janeiro remains the largest paying concert audience by a female artist with 180,000 spectators.
Tour by Tina Turner | |
Associated album | Break Every Rule |
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Start date | March 4, 1987 |
End date | March 30, 1988 |
Legs | 5 |
No. of shows | 94 in Europe 90 in North America 4 in South America 11 in Australia 23 in Asia 222 total |
Attendance | 4 million |
Box office | $60 million[citation needed] |
Tina Turner concert chronology |
Background
editThe tour was originally billed as Turner's "last tour". In an interview with Jet magazine, Turner stated,[2]
It is my last tour for now. There probably won't be a tour with the next album because I want to devote some time to my movie career. But, I don't plan to retire.
The European tour kicked off on March 4, 1987, in front of a sold-out crowd of over 15,000 people at the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany, a venue that she would later play 7 more times during the tour. During the first few shows, the tour went without Turner's signature hit "Proud Mary". Turner avoided the song because she had done it for so many years. It wasn't until her performance at the Rotterdam Ahoy that she tried the song in the set list. Turner stated, "The crowd erupted and sang the song for us. That's when I realized, 'We've got to put 'Mary' back in, she's still rolling on the river.'"[3]
The most memorable and unusual moment for Turner was in Locarno, Switzerland. The stage for the concert had been built in the center of the town. As Turner recalls, "The stage was literally in the middle of the street surrounded by apartment buildings with parents and little kids sitting on their balconies in their night robes."[3] Before her concerts at Johanneshov Isstadion in Sweden, Turner got a bad sinus infection and had to cancel her concerts. The arena was sold out and when the concert promoter went on stage to tell the audience, instead of booing the 13,000 people cheered with understanding. When Turner returned, she played to an even bigger audience.[4] In her stadium concert in Ireland, Turner attracted a huge crowd of over 60,000 people. During this massive concert, Turner nearly stopped the show because of fans in the front getting crushed by other fans.[3] The European tour ended on July 26, 1987, where it began in Munich, Germany. Turner recalls", Our biggest crowd came towards the end of the tour in Munich. We had already played eight indoor shows there to about 120,000 people and once I have been to a city, I'm always reluctant to go back soon afterward. [Then] we attracted another 100,000 people outdoors, I was really quite astounded. It felt like the Rolling Stones when they drew those huge crowds."
The tour proved to be most successful in Germany, where Turner played over 40 shows to 800,000 fans.[5] Turner recalls that Germany has always been "special" to her. The European tour itself played to over 1.7 million people, more than any tour before it.[6] The tour continued to break records in South America. Turner's performance at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro attracted over 180,000 spectators, one of the largest concert attendances in the 20th century, earning her a Guinness World Record.[7][8]
Broadcast and recordings
editHer world record-breaking Break Every Rule Tour show of 1988 held in a single night at the Rio de Janeiro's Maracanã Stadium, was later released in video form on VHS and DVD called "Tina Live in Rio 88'".With this particular show alone, she entered the Guinness Book of World Records because she set the record of drawing 180,000 paying fans to a one-night show alone.[9]
The VHS was released with the following thirteen songs:
- "Addicted to Love"
- "I Can't Stand the Rain"
- "Typical Male"
- "Better Be Good to Me"
- "Private Dancer"
- "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)"
- "What's Love Got to Do with It"
- "Help"
- "Let's Stay Together"
- "Proud Mary"
- "What You Get Is What You See"
- "Break Every Rule"
- "Paradise Is Here"
Additionally, a TV special recorded at the Camden Palace in London was released as "Break Every Rule starring Tina Turner". The songs included on that video album:
- "Afterglow" (Music Video)
- "Intro: Max Headroom"
- "Back Where You Started"
- "Break Every Rule"
- "What You Get Is What You See"
- "Overnight Sensation"
- "A Change Is Gonna Come"
- "Two People"
- "Addicted To Love"
- "In the Midnight Hour"
- "634-5789"
- "Land of 1,000 Dances"
- "Paradise is Here" (Music Video)
- "Girls" (Music Video)
Personnel
edit- James Ralston – guitar, vocals
- Laurie Wisefield – guitar
- Bob Feit – bass guitar, vocals
- Jack Bruno – drums
- Steve Scales – percussion
- John Miles – keyboards, guitar, vocals
- Don Snow – keyboards, saxophone, vocals
- Ollie Marland – keyboards, vocals
- Deric Dyer – saxophone, keyboards
Opening act
edit- Level 42 (North America, select dates)
- Wang Chung (North America, select dates)
- Glass Tiger (West Germany, March 1987)[10]
- Dragon (Stuttgart)[11]
- Marshall Crenshaw (Tacoma, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg)
- Go West (Cape Girardeau, Mursfreesboro)
Setlist
edit- Act I
- Act II
- Act III
- "Addicted to Love"
- "Private Dancer"
- "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)"
- "What's Love Got to Do with It"
- Act IV
- Act V
- "Proud Mary"
- "Show Some Respect"
- "It's Only Love" (performed with John Miles)
- Encore
- Notes
- "Proud Mary" was added to the setlist during the concert in Rotterdam. It is believed (and not confirmed) Turner performed "Land of a Thousand Dances".
- "Overnight Sensation" was only performed during shows in the UK.
- Turner performed "Tearing Us Apart" with Eric Clapton in London, on June 17, 1987
- During one of the shows in Osaka, Turner performed "Honky Tonk Women" with Mick Jagger
Tour dates
editBox office score data
editVenue | City | Tickets Sold / Available | Gross Revenue |
---|---|---|---|
Cumberland County Civic Center | Portland | 8,429 / 8,429 (100%) | $143,045[15] |
Jones Beach Marine Theater | Wantagh | 20,000 / 20,000 (100%) | $400,000[16] |
Merriweather Post Pavilion | Columbia | 13,859 / 26,344 (53%) | $219,141[17] |
Madison Square Garden | New York City | 18,000 / 18,000 (100%) | $338,789[18] |
The Spectrum | Philadelphia | 6,839 / 14,100 (49%) | $119,577[17] |
Montreal Forum | Montreal | 10,061 / 15,000 (67%) | $180,815[17] |
CNE Grandstand | Toronto | 18,023 / 22,000 (82%) | $301,804[19] |
Lansdowne Park | Ottawa | 11,473 / 15,000 (76%) | $178,803[18] |
Saratoga Performing Arts Center | Saratoga Springs | 6,892 / 25,103 (27%) | $112,088[17] |
NYSF Grandstand | Geddes | 8,943 / 15,000 (60%) | $132,676[18] |
Rochester Community War Memorial | Rochester | 4,369 / 9,200 (47%) | $76,328[17] |
Pine Knob Music Theatre | Clarkston | 14,451 / 31,840 (45%) | $273,860[17] |
Castle Farms Music Theatre | Charlevoix | 5,619 / 15,000 (37%) | $94,573[20] |
Blossom Music Center | Cuyahoga Falls | 9,611 / 18,767 (51%) | $138,762[17] |
Poplar Creek Music Theater | Hoffman Estates | 18,925 / 23,882 (79%) | $350,505[17] |
Alpine Valley Music Theatre | East Troy | 5,563 / 10,946 (51%) | $128,947[17] |
Tacoma Dome | Tacoma | 11,167 / 20,000 (56%) | $192,395[21] |
Olympic Saddledome | Calgary | 14,706 / 14,706 (100%) | $220,271[21] |
Winnipeg Arena | Winnipeg | 13,077 / 15,000 (87%) | $214,450[21] |
Show Me Center | Cape Girardeau | 7,251 / 7,251 (100%) | $122,868[21] |
Murphy Center | Mursfreesboro | 5,645 / 7,500 (75%) | $89,915[22] |
USF Sun Dome | Tampa | 8,860 / 9,000 (98%) | $146,510[23] |
BJCC Coliseum | Birmingham | 7,040 / 12,000 (59%) | $115,914[24] |
Frank Erwin Center | Austin | 5,876 / 6,731 (87%) | $93,575[25] |
Tucson Community Center | Tucson | 7,381 / 8,068 (91%) | $136,142[26] |
Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena | Oakland | 10,847 / 13,000 (83%) | $200,670[26] |
BSU Pavilion | Boise | 10,571 / 10,571 (100%) | $163,663[26] |
TOTAL | 283,478 / 412,438 (69%) | $4,886,086 |
See also
editExternal links
editReferences
edit- ^ Hilburn, Robert (January 23, 1988). "U2's $35-Million Gross Is Highest for '87 Tour". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on January 2, 2022. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
- ^ "Tina Turner talks about her final concert tour". Jet Magazine. Vol. 73, no. 4. Johnson Publishing Company. October 19, 1987. p. 59. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
- ^ a b c Tina Live: In Europe (Booklet). Tina Turner. Hollywood, California: Capitol Records. 1988. p. 2. 90126.
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- ^ Tina Live: In Europe (Booklet). Tina Turner. Hollywood, California: Capitol Records. 1988. p. 6. 90126.
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- ^ Norment, Lynn (November 1989). "Rich, Free and in Control: The "Foreign Affairs" of Tina Turner". Ebony. Vol. 45, no. 1. Johnson Publishing Company. p. 172. Retrieved August 22, 2010.
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- ^ Retro Throwback Moment – Glass Tiger/Tina Turner – Mar 1987. YouTube. November 28, 2019. Retrieved June 13, 2021.
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